The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

How fast is Earth moving? The sun doesn't sit idly in the center of these ellipses at equal distance from their farthest points. It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun ... so slowly — once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the sun can appear overhead for weeks ...

While the apparent increase in collision probability for December 2032 may seem concerning, experts stress that the risk ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

Blue Ghost took its first photos of the moon from the spacecraft's orbit around Earth. - Firefly Aerospace The company plans to capture HD imagery of a total lunar eclipse from the moon when Earth ...

"Witness Earth eclipsing the Sun from Blue Ghost's ... Blue Ghost will spend 25 days in Earth's orbit before embarking on a four-day journey to the moon, located around a quarter-million miles ...